If love is not in the truth I tell
I’m not telling the whole truth.
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Continue well
Once you have finished either Mark or John (referring back to Begin well…), then read the other.
Jesus did what he did because he was who he was.
He was who he was because he did what he did.
We need to hear from both Mark and John to come to know the person the Bible is all about.
And then we need to hear from Matthew.
And Luke.
Once you have read both Mark and John, read Matthew and then Luke.
As you read, remember: the point is to know Jesus better. Look back to Resolved to read? and Does it translate? to help set that context.
Maybe pray one of these prayers, if that helps: A prayer when reading scripture or A prayer for eternal life.
Grace and peace to you…
dw
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No, Lamb of God
O God, deliver us from the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, because the sin of the world is our heart’s desire, our uniform, our derby hat. O Lamb of God, have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us.
Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons, “Air for Two Voices”
Unpopular, this.
Too often too true.
After we do our God thing
(or not)
And get down to the business
Of doing Our thing
God doesn’t have a ticket,
The bouncer at the door explaining
It’s sold out.
Grace and peace to us all…
dw
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Listen to Your Life
Listen to your lives for the sound of him.
Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons, “Delay”
Search even in the dark for the light and the love and the life because they are there also, and we are known each one by name.
How can one hear a whisper
The whisper we each long to hear
I know you and I love you
And I will lead you to Life
If you will follow
How can one hear that whisper
Over the blaring TV screen
The even louder unsocial media
Telling us we are No Good
Unless we show this color
Drive this vehicle
Fly this flag
Wear these shoes
All hollering you are No Good
Unless you spend this extra dollar
Over the subterranean rumble
Signals from family:
You aren’t who we hoped you would be
How can one hear that whisper
Over the substances we use
To kill the pain of being No Good
The loudest voices of all
Telling us, time and time again,
You are No Good
Is there any hearing left
Any ability to discern?
Oh God, have mercy
Whisper loudly
Listen to your lives for the sound of him.
Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons, “Delay”
Search even in the dark for the light and the love and the life because they are there also, and we are known each one by name.
Grace and peace to you…
dw
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Life: that’s what we all hunger for, wait for always,
Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons, “Delay”
whether we keep coming back to places like church to find it or whether we avoid places like church like the plague as the last places on earth to find it:
both delivered in part and derelict in part, immigrants and mongrels all of us.
It’s life as we’ve never really known it but only dreamed it that we wait for.
Life with each other, Life for each other.
Life with the darkness gone.
Jesus, you said
I am the Light of the world
I am the way, the truth, and the life
I came that they might have life abundantly
My joy I give to you
May your words prevail this day
in my life
and in our world
Light shining in the darkness,
the darkness not prevailing
May it be
Grace and peace to you…
dw
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